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Graciela Mochkofsky

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Graciela Mochkofsky, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, has been a journalist in Argentina for the past 17 years, as senior political correspondent for La Nación and until last year as a contributing political columnist for the newspaper Perfil, in Buenos Aires. Her articles have appeared in many Latin American newspapers and magazines, and she has written four nonfiction books; her most recent book, La Revelación, was published in August 2007.

Rediscovering Latin American Jewry, From Peru to Israel

Ten years ago I came upon the story of Segundo Villanueva, an impoverished Peruvian who, as a result of his reading of the Bible, concluded that Catholicism was a fraud.…

An Enduring Story—With Lessons for Journalists Today

During the time of ‘the disappeared’ in Argentina, when Robert Cox edited The Herald, the newspaper ‘became the most reliable source of information about human rights violations in Argentina.’